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Daily Life
Furnace Closet refurb complete — No more green paint, and the many years of scratches, scrapes and various holes drilled in the walls have been patched. 2
July 20, 2025 14:47
What hole? Four days later, and it’s all fixed. I also patched the rest of the walls, the ceiling, and repainted the lot. 2
July 20, 2025 9:42
Dyson battery & charger holder — It must be summer. Time for some work around the house. It’s too hot and buggy to be outside. 3
July 20, 2025 7:26
Back in the workshop — It must be summer. Unfortunately, it’s now too hot and buggy for hiking or sitting around outside. Time for some work around the house.
July 17, 2025 12:25
That escalated quickly — This started out as a three-hour job. I’ll be lucky if I finish it in under a week.
July 16, 2025 9:34
When did I grow old? It feels like I blinked, and suddenly I’ve aged — I was writing in my journal when I noticed how old my hands looked. I don’t feel older, but I now have my grandparents’ hands: the loose flesh, thin skin, age spots, and prominent veins.
April 27, 2025 14:29
Ginger’s Studio Worktable. A hurried shot that I should have taken more time over.
March 2, 2025 15:26
Redistribution — After over a year of working out, I haven’t lost any weight, but it has moved around. My body fat percentage has dropped, and my muscle mass has increased slightly.
February 17, 2025 10:32
Heading out to the gym — It was tempting to take a ‘rest day,’ but I didn’t. Crossing the gym parking lot in my gym kit can be chilly at times!
February 12, 2025 7:06
No work. Feed me!
January 24, 2025 8:21
Dick on Ginger’s office couch.
January 22, 2025 15:46
Dick — Our grandcat has been visiting since before Christmas. He’s going home soon.
January 13, 2025 15:59
Blue Bowl, Blanket Box, and Crocs — I was passing through the ‘Sparkle Zone’ when I noticed the light on the bowl, blanket box, and Crocs. The latter, with their color popping.
October 7, 2024 8:42
Journals and Ink — Four journals, four pens, one pencil, and three bottles of ink. I felt the need to take a picture, and this is what I came up with.
June 21, 2024 16:29
I’ve been shopping — It looks like a lot, but at 2-300 rounds per trip to the range it won’t last long. Now I’ve just got to find space to store it all in the gun safe.
June 13, 2024 16:46
Mammatus clouds over Springfield — We’ve had some weird weather lately. I heard about a house being hit by three tornadoes in the past month (around 30 miles from us). This week, we were on the edge of a storm that, according to the radar, was dumping twenty-five inches of rain per hour. +2
May 8, 2024 20:21
Morning tea on an old stool — At some point in life, we learn the value of eschewing the bright, shiny, and new for the well-worn, used, and patinaed that does its job, and does it well enough.
April 15, 2024 6:22
Upon Reflection — I grabbed the camera after the play of light on the bathroom mirrors caught my attention. To quote Ginger, “It’s a very Gary photograph.”
April 14, 2024 8:46
Finally seeing results — I’ve been regularly exercising for around and hour a day, five days a week for three months now. I read that it takes a lot longer to get results when you get to a ‘certain age,’ and so it has. This week, for the first time the body fat percentage has dropped into the green.
March 7, 2024 8:10
The perils (and perks) of a home office. Dick is ‘helping’ me edit videos.
March 1, 2024 11:16
Our grandcat is visiting — Dick is staying with us for a couple of months while his mother is off traveling.
December 24, 2023 8:45
Sunday morning therapy: cleaning — It’s good to push the keyboard away, get out the cleaning materials, and smell the G96 gun oil and Hoppes #9 gun bore cleaner while taking my time cleaning and checking my guns.
November 26, 2023 9:52
Sparkle Zone color. There’s a reason why we call this room of our house the ‘Sparkle Zone.’ +1